Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art, Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl's 1964 scholarly work from Thomas Nelson and Sons, later reissued in an augmented edition by McGill Queen's University Press in 2019, is the landmark Warburg Institute study of Saturn's astrological melancholic character across natural philosophy, religion and art, including the Renaissance reading of the pseudo Aristotelian Problemata by Marsilio Ficino and his circle that first linked melancholy to genius. Its strength is that it is the landmark study of this reception history, still in print in an augmented edition. Its limit, stated as a scope note, is that it should be used for that reception history, not for any claim about Saturn's astrological rulership itself.
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Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl's Saturn and Melancholy, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1964, the top tier reflecting the landmark Warburg Institute study of Saturn's reception history, still in print in an augmented edition. Its limit, stated as a scope note, is that it should be used for that reception history, not for any claim about Saturn's astrological rulership itself. NotesThe landmark Warburg Institute study (new augmented edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-7735-5949-3) of Saturn's astrological melancholic character across natural philosophy, religion and art, including the Renaissance reading of the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata by Marsilio Ficino and his circle that first linked melancholy to genius. Use for that reception history, not for any claim about Saturn's astrological rulership itself.
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AuthorRaymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl
PublisherThomas Nelson and Sons
Publication Year1964
Source TypeScholarly work
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